Mirror entity doesn't interact with the Baron at all, save that it's a spell with a 2 in it's mana cost, and a 1 in it's printed power/toughness. Mirror entity's ability effects your creatures that are in play, not on the stack, and activating an ability is not casting a spell, so I don't know why you think that's a combo...
Wurmcalling and Fanning the Flames do what you're looking for, as x is equal to the value you set it at while the spell is on the stack, (which is when the Baron checks for numbers), and have buyback so you can hit all the relevant numerals.
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The judge should NEVER side with the dillhole in this situation. The tournament rules for Meddling Mage, Pithing Needle, etc. only require that you uniquely identify the card. You could say "That 8 mana colorless Planeswalker", and that would be enough for your needle to turn off Ugin, the Spirit Dragon. The rules also follow format legality, so naming Thassa with a card in standard would automatically assume Thassa, Deep-Dwelling.
OT: I'm fine with it, though I hope that the Godzilla cards are an exception rather than the norm. I mean, I still want them, but having the alternate name be in larger print than the card's actual name is kind of stupid.
1/2. This change would disproportionately help decks that only want one or two land in a game. Goblin Charbelcher decks already get away with running like... 2 lands, and your change completely eliminates that. A burn deck is guaranteed to always hit 3 land, then draw nothing but gas the rest of the game. I could go on...
3/4/5. I don't know why this would need to be a hard/fast rule. Casual is a social contract, you shouldn't need to formally tell people to not be a jerk if the group finds the play style frustrating.
6/7/8/9. That is... basically all the removal options outside of destroy/damage. I get the distinct impression that you're still pretty new to the game, but I can assure you that removing all of the means to stop combo is NOT going to help make your format more casual.
If you're looking for some casual formats, I'd recommend Type 4 or Horde. They address most of the complaints you seem to have while NOT breaking the game.
As far as the Secret Lair itself is concerned, I'll finally accept THIS as proof they care about the secondary market. Prior examples people were holding up COULD have been attributed to the printed rarity of the cards, despite what many people here seemed to believe. This is 5 rares, so that's officially dead. That being said, I don't consider opting to NOT cause the secondary market to collapse in on itself to be a bad thing. They're prioritizing maintaining customers over replacing them.
I mean... I think it's at least more common than a foil rare in a normal set?
1/121 as opposed to... They follow normal rarity distribution right? so 1/15 foils is a rare, and 1/3 packs has a foil, or 1/45 packs. For a SPECIFIC rare, you've got ~50+ rares/set so...1/2250? These are over 18 times more common than regular foils, it might not shift the price of normal ones, but the foil prices will take a POUNDING.
Early on in the combo you aren't likely to have many extra land to throw into seism, seeing as it costs 2, and you (ideally) will have a Ghost Quarter, which shouldn't be fed to it, and late in the combo you won't need it. Greater Gargadon costs one less (and that can be paid BEFORE the combo turn), can be used for multiple iterations of the loop, and leaves you with a 9/7 hasty plan b.
I'm going to sacrifice so many
thatched-roof cottageslands.And the Korvold comes in... THE NIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!
UR Phoenix, Dredge, Nameless One, and (possibly) U(x) Control being notable exceptions.